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10/02/2025 - 12/06/2025
La Galerie Rouge
3, Rue du Pont Louis-Philippe
75004 Paris Paris
La Galerie Rouge is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in France of Sandra Eleta, a renowned Panamanian photographer. Since the 1970s, Eleta has built a deeply humanistic and socially engaged work, using photography as a means to connect with others and reflect on cultural identity, social relationships, memory and dignity. Regards au coeur du Panama brings together four series that span several decades of her career. La Servidumbre (1975–1989) documents two generations of domestic workers in Panama and Spain, highlighting class dynamics under dictatorship in Panama and in Spain. At the heart of the exhibition is her most iconic work, focused on the community of Portobelo, a small city on the Caribbean coast where she has lived since the 1970s. Through intimate portraits, she captures the cultural richness and daily life of the Congos, descendants of slaves. Two lesser-known series complete the exhibition: Las Campesinas (c. 1976), which follows a mother and her daughters who have recently settled in an arid valley on the Pacific coast and are trying to survive ; and Emberá: Hijos del Río (1998), a series of portraits of the Indigenous Emberá people, photographed in relation to their environment, particularly water, a central element of Emberá culture.
La Galerie Rouge
3, Rue du Pont Louis-Philippe
75004 Paris Paris
La Galerie Rouge is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in France of Sandra Eleta, a renowned Panamanian photographer. Since the 1970s, Eleta has built a deeply humanistic and socially engaged work, using photography as a means to connect with others and reflect on cultural identity, social relationships, memory and dignity. Regards au coeur du Panama brings together four series that span several decades of her career. La Servidumbre (1975–1989) documents two generations of domestic workers in Panama and Spain, highlighting class dynamics under dictatorship in Panama and in Spain. At the heart of the exhibition is her most iconic work, focused on the community of Portobelo, a small city on the Caribbean coast where she has lived since the 1970s. Through intimate portraits, she captures the cultural richness and daily life of the Congos, descendants of slaves. Two lesser-known series complete the exhibition: Las Campesinas (c. 1976), which follows a mother and her daughters who have recently settled in an arid valley on the Pacific coast and are trying to survive ; and Emberá: Hijos del Río (1998), a series of portraits of the Indigenous Emberá people, photographed in relation to their environment, particularly water, a central element of Emberá culture.